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04-20-2008, 04:11 PM #1Aspiring Evangelist
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tabbed html page and seo
Hello it is my first post here.
I was just wondering if an html page was made of tabs using ajax to switch contents of the page with respect to the tab we are in. Would that have a negative effect on seo?
Thanks
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04-20-2008, 05:04 PM #2Eternal Member
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It depends on the method you use. Did you have something specific in mind?
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04-20-2008, 05:16 PM #3Aspiring Evangelist
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yes what I have in mind is that the user clicks a tab when he clicks this will call a javascript function then the javascript will call a php page that will echo the new contents of the tab
hope it is clear
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04-20-2008, 07:34 PM #4WHT Addict
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My own personal opinion on tabbed layouts, is when there is not an over-abundance of copy in the various tabs, that you setup all of the tabs content in Div's in the same pages content rather than pulling it in via javascript. This gives you not only the ability for search engines to see the content (they will not currently if you are using javascript to call the pages in), but it will also give the spiders more content on that page to find keywords to rank for.
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04-20-2008, 09:54 PM #5Aspiring Evangelist
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IMO javascript should be avoided whenever possible for any content that you want a search engine to see. Nuclei's methof of putting the content in divs is a clever method of getting around this problem or you could use CSS to make only certain portions of a page visible depending on the tab you click.
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04-21-2008, 02:48 AM #6Aspiring Evangelist
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Thanks all, I'll go the div way then.